Combined shoe and puttee



H C. DYER.

COMBINED SHOE AND PUTTEE.

APPLICATION HLED OCT- 1919- Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

WITNESSES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY C. DYER, OF NEW YORK, N, Y.

COMBINED SHOE AND PUTTEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

Application filed October 2a, 1919; Serial No. 33394.1(

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY C. DYnn,.-a citizen of the Umted States, ant. a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of i\ew York,

have invented a new and useful Combined Shoe and Puttee, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to a combined shoe and puttee and has particular reference to an arrangement of this kind in which the puttee is of the wrapped type whereupon it is adapted to engage the leg of the wearer in spirally arranged folds.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a combined shoe and puttee which will offer many advantages over the present known type in that instead of having the puttee separate from the shoe the same is made preferably as an integral part thereof.

While the invention in its preferred form as stated consists in constructing the puttee as an integral part of the shoe it may be desirable in some instances to produce the same from fabric instead of leather in which event the puttee may take the place of the closing flaps of the shoe or be sewed to one of the closing flaps.

Further features ofthe invention will be more readily understood upon reference to the accompanying drawing in which,

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a combined shoe and puttee as proposed by the invention showing the same applied to the left leg of the wearer.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite side.

Fig. 3 is a front view showing the puttee about to be wound around the leg of the wearer.

Fig. 4 is a cross section through the spirally arranged folds of the puttee.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the puttee before it has been incorporated with the shoe, and

Fig. 6 is a side view of a modification, that is where the puttee has been applied to an existing shoe structure.

Referring to the drawings in detail as stated, the invention involves primarily two forms, namely a preferred construction and a modification. The preferred embodiment is shown in Figs. 1 to 5 inclusive in which form the shoe A is constructed with closing flaps B and C, one of which, namely C being continuous and providing a puttee D which is so made as to enable the same to be wrapped around the leg of the wearer in spirally arranged folds. The continuation of the closing flap C, that is to say the puttee is so cut as to enable the same to overlap the flap B and in this connection it is desirable to effect this result that the closing flap on the inside of the shoe be continued to provide the puttee D so that the puttee may be wrapped with the spirally arranged folds beginning on the inside and terminating in an attaching means as E on the outside.

As heretofore practised in producing conventional makes of shoes, particularly in some types, the heel leather of the shoe is brought around over the instep to provide the closing flaps. As stated the present invention does away with this part of the shoe leather in that it in itself provides this art of the shoe construction as indicated by F, therefore in constructing a combined puttee and shoe in accordance with the invention the heel part F, best illustrated in Fig. 5, is sewed to the shoe as indicated along the dotted lines, with the short end thereof providing a. closing flap B and the opposite end providing a closing flap C, and the puttee strip D, the seam as at G being presented at the back of the heel.

In the modification shown in Fig. 6, the puttee D as well as the parts C and F are substantially the same as in the preferred form with the exception that in the modification the puttee may be made of fabric and sewed over the leather of an existing shoe structure, or if desirable the fabric in this instance may take the place of the shoe leather and be incorporated in the shoe structure the same way as the puttee shown in the preferred form. On the other hand should it not be desirable to construct the shoe and puttee with the modified form as just described, the shoe attaching end of the puttee may terminate in the closing flap C and be sewed to the shoe as indicated by the stitches G in which event the part F will of course be the ordinary heel leather.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows 1. The combination with a shoe structure of a puttee constituting a continuation of one of the closing flaps thereof, a portion of said continuation being adapted to overlap the remaining flap whereby to secure both of said flaps in closed position the remainder of said flaps in closed position, the remalnder of said continuation being adapted 10 to spirally engage. the leg of the wearer in overlapped folds, and fastening means formed at the free end of said continuation adapted to secure the puttee in its applied position.

HENRY C. DYER. 

